A big mess on a small island: Keeping Dalmatia’s olive oil tradition alive

Joe Orovic is a freelance journalist and writer with an infernal olive habit. He left his native New York City in 2013, now living and working full-time on a small island off the coast of Zadar called Iž. When he’s not writing for the likes of The New York Times, Popular Science and Total Croatia News, you can find Joe rejuvenating the 200-plus olive trees his family admirably spent decades ignoring, cursing the entire time.